BDC-0090-23
Growing from leaf stems of Nephrolepis sp.
KOH n/a; UV n/a; odor indistinct; taste n/a; cap 3-8 mm; height 4-15 mm.
Notes: Lamellulae present, stipe base with white fuzz.
On black pyrenomycete.
Ascomata red substromatic perithecia (red-orange in squash mount), KOH+ violet. Perithecia 160-200 µm diameter. Ostiole raise on stout platform 115 x 30 µm. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, 74 x 6 µm. Ascospores 7-9 x 3-3.5 µm, hyaline, elliptical 1-septate, occasionally guttulate.
BDC-0105-23
Growing attached to roots of toilet brush ginger.
KOH not reactive; UV not reactive; odor similar to T. versicolor; taste metallic/astringent; cap 5.5 cm; height 1.5 cm.
Notes: Growing next to/possibly attached to a ginger plant. Lacks black band beneath tomentum. 6-7 pores/mm.
Pink, fuzzy fruitbody oozing red droplets,
Dentate underside,
Darker, tapering stipe,
Rosecomb,
White UV,
Mild play dough odor,
Growing off trail under evergreen Huckleberry,
Near sitka spruce/hemlock
BDC-0103-23
Growing on fallen wood. Ceirodendron and Ohia in the area.
KOH brownish blotches; UV reactive (orangish); odor indistinct; taste not tested; size 1-2cm x 2-3cm.
Notes: Fairly diminutive.
FDS-CA-00708
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing on dead Eriogonum fasciculatum twig
Extremely small orange stipitate Ascomycetes with seemingly serrated margins
FDS-CA-00750
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest near the south fork of the Gualala River
Growing on dead Arbutus menziesii leaves fallen near the side of dirt road. Studding the underside with affinity for the central vein
Tiny orange spheres. Hard to the touch. Endophytes?
In mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Sequoia sempervirens, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, with Vaccinium ovatum and Polystichum munitum dominant understory
Growing on side of road in a ditch with compact, gravelly soils. Forest edge
Pileus olive/brown becoming more tan near margin, studded with small fibrous hairs. Stipe silvery grey, fibrous, also studded with small fibrous hairs. Lamellae white to cream colored, narrowly attached to notched, serrate
Smell and taste indistinct
Annadel State Park, Lawndale Trail. Mixed oak/hardwood/conifer forest
Growing in soil and Pseudotsuga menziesii duff on mossy trail cut
Rounded to oval, concave olive green cups with white, tomentose margin and fine, white hairs covering outer excipulum
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
KOH brown on exciple
Annadel State Park, Lawndale Trail, in an open mixed Oak woodland/shrubland
Growing on side of trail from disturbed soil under Arctostaphylos
Metalic reddish/brown, slightly umbonate pileus, white equal stipe, brown narrowly attached lamellae
Smell like tootsie rolls or cheap chocolate candy
Taste bitter and slightly spicy
Stipe fluoresces yellow
Dark grey KOH on cap
growing on horse dung near a horse paddock
In mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest: Pseudotsuga menziesii, Sequoia sempervirens, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, with Vaccinium ovatum and Gaultheria shallon dominant understory
Growing from disturbed, clay rich soil in a ditch on the side of the road
Highly tomentose, bell shaped brown pileus with a white frilly margin. Stipe white/light brown, fibrous also tomentose near the apex. Lamellae white, free
Smell instinct
Tate mild
No KOH
Salt Point State Park, Central Trail near the water towers. Confier/hardwood mixed coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing in blackened, diseased part of a young Pseudotsuga menziesii
Tiny, orange, stipitate Ascomycete. Exciple and margin covered in white hairs
Salt Point State Park, near Central Trail. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing on a well rotted and de-barked Notholithocarpus densiflorus
Tiny, pea sized orange pleurotoid fungus. Laterally attached stipe with distantly spaced, subdecurrent lamellae. Pileus striate, so thin you can almost see through it. Reduced stipe covered in tiny white hairs.
No noticeable smell, taste mild
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing on underside of severely burned and decomposing log (most likely Pinus sabiniana)
Blue/yellow resupinate fungus with round lumps scattered throughout
Smell indistinct
KOH indistinct
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing on bark layer of in-tact but fallen Pinus sabiniana. Seems to be radially growing from little holes in the bark/cambium layers (insect?)
Zonate, resupinate, with fleshy folds throughout. Growing in concentric zones of color starting from deep red to orange, and white near the slightly tomentose margin. One fruit body slightly reflexed
Smell indistinct
Orange brown KOH in white light, fruit body orange under UV, KOH streak turning blue
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing in soil and directly off fine roots in a hole leftover from a burned out root system
Brown pileus with a wavy margin. Lamellae white to cream colored, anastomosing, subdistant to distant, broadly attached to subdecurrent. Stipe short, fibrous, off-center
Smell indistinct
Burned Quercus/Pinus dominant woodland (now shrubland post-burn), just west of Knoxville road near Lake Berryessa
Growing on burned, dead but standing Pinus sabiniana
Reflexed polypore with white hymenophore and surface speckled in brown. Tissue tough, dense, leathery
Taste extremely bitter/acidic
Smell indistinct
Slightly yellow KOH in white light
Whole sporocarp fluorescing blue/yellow/pinkish. KOH turning bright yellow
Annadel State Park, just off Lawndale Trail in an inland stand of young Sequoia sempervirens
Growing just downhill of a burnt Sequoia sempervirens log in a stand of young Sequoia sempervirens. Looks as if there was a relatively mild burn in the area within the past decade. Maybe a low-intensity patch from the 2017 Tubbs fire
Royal blue, velutinous pileus. Lamellae white with a blue hue, narrowly attached. Stipe elongate, equal, royal blue covered in fine chevrons
Smell indistinct
Whole fruit body glows golden
Annadel State Park, just off Lawndale Trail. In robust chaparral habitat under large power line system
Fruit bodies growing from white mycelial “cocoon” in soil under Adenostoma fasciculatum
Strange, cordyceps-like fungus with two sporocarps emerging from a white, mycelial "cocoon" buried underneath the surface of the soil. Sporocarps like little bulbous clips, covered din a white, cracking tissue. No in-tact insect body detected, but some spherical chitinous remains of what seems to be of insect origin were found
FDS-CA-00707
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing on dead grass under Eriogonum fasciculatum (no flowering stalk to grass so I couldn’t identify)
Tiny pink stipitate Ascomycete with a slightly darkened margin
FDS-CA-00800
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated coastal mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing underneath the bark layer on large, decomposing Pinus radiata log
Reflexed fruit bodies with elongated white to cream pores and a rusty/red to brown surface becoming orange and white at margin
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Mild yellow KOH on hymenophore
FDS-CA-00746
Mixed hardwood/conifer coastal forest near the south fork of the Gualala River
Growing in duff-covered soil on the side of the road
White to yellow parasitic fungi on Trichoglossum
Smell a little like seafood
Fluoresces orange/pink
FDS-CA-00737
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated coastal mixed hardwood/conifer forest
Growing in thick pine duff under Pinus radiata
Pinkish-purple viscid pileus, white equal stipe with broadly attached lamellae, white and crowded when young becoming cream to yellowish and more broadly spaced in age. Solid internal stipe
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Bright red KOH on pileus
Stipe and lamellae fluorescing bright yellow, pileus bright blue
“Albogymnopilus nanus” nom prov.
Salt Point State Park, Central Trail near the water towers. Mixed confier/hardwood coastal forest; Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Notholithocarpus densiflorus, Pinus muricata, Arbutus menziesii
Growing in sandy soils under Notholithocarpus densiflorus and Rhododendron groenlandicum on side of trail
Small white mushroom with white to cream, smooth pileus and stipe, light orange to brown narrowly attached lamellae. Rusty brown spore print
Smell indistinct
Taste mild
Extremely fluorescent (green/yellow) on all parts!
FDS-CA-00715
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing from mossy soil with ample organic matter under Baccharis pilularis and Diplacus aurantiacus. Most likely associating L. alnicola given they were fruiting nearby
One of the more brown-toned Dendrocollybias I've ever seen. Emerging out of small black sclerotia
Smell indistinct
No KOH
FDS-CA-00704
Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, Pinehurst Staging Area- EBRPD. Baccharis pilularis, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Frangula californica, Umbellularia californica and Quercus agrifolia dominated CA chaparral and woodlands
Growing abundantly in Baccharis pilularis leaf litter
Tiny white, almost translucent Hemimycenoid with veil-like decurrent lamellae
No smell detectable
FDS-CA-00723
In Pinus radiata and Quercus agrifolia dominated suburban forest
Growing mostly on the underside and beneath bark layer on decomposing Pinus radiata log. Seen growing in the cavities of the log where the woodlouse seem to be eating the mycelium
Yellow to orange pored crust with white margins. Tops of reflexed fruit bodies slightly tomentose, pores elongating in age to appear almost dentate and becoming slightly silvery in color
Smell like brie cheese
Taste sweet
Yellow KOH
Mixed hardwood/conifer forest on edge of Alpine lake, Cataract Trailhead, MMWD
White fuzz growing prolifically on Armillaria sinapina, restricted to lamellae
Growing on conifer twig in mixed riparian forest. Small white astipitate crepidotoid. Pileus white, soft and slightly fuzzy, inrolled at margins. Lamellae distinctly pink, radially attached to small cottony white pseudostipe.
Growing in mid elevation mixed conifer forest. Pileus pink to pale yellowish white, broadly campanulate. Lamellae peachy pink, fading to white. Stipe smooth, pinkish at apex, fading to greyish brown at the base, with greyish basal tomentum.
Odor: None. Size: pileus 3mm-7mm, stipes 3mm-1.8cm. KOH: None. UV: Gills yellow.
In mixed riparian forest. Pileus brick-orange, dimpled, inrolled at margins, K+ yellow-green. Lamellae light tan, thin, crowded, decurrent, funneliform. Stipe light tan, it and gills K-.
Growing in fir forest on the west side of the mountain crest. Pileus funneliform, with chunky brown scales. Hymenium off-white, wrinkly, developing conspicuous violet spotting, K+ light orange.
Growing on the inner surface of a hanging sheet of Quercus chrysolepis bark. Pileus tan with a scalloped edge, dusted-crystalline texture with more whitish ornamentation towards the margin. Lamellae widely spaced, decurrent to widely attached. Stipe small, light tan.
Growing in edge-riparian pine forest on ultramafic soil. Pileus yellow, flat to ruffled and uplifted at margin, K-. Lamellae dingy brown, free to narrowly attached. Stipe whitish, with rusty-brown spore covered cortina remnants and a spade-shaped base.
Growing from a shed piece of sugar pine bark. Pileus deep shaggy blue, rounded. Lamellae whitewith extremely subtle pale blue margins, widely attached to subdecurrent, UV+ pale ghost green. Stipe blue, whitish towards the base.
Dark brown truffles, growing emerging from duff in mixed conifer forest. Peridium dark pinkish brown, gleba white, of densely packed folded tissue. K-, smell indistinct
In soil with Quercus chrysolepis and Calocedrus decurrens.
Odor fresh
Emerging from side dead conifer, possible Jeffrey pine.
Secotioid agaric with shape of squashed baseball. Cap slimy, orange-yellow with fibrillose reddish brown scales. Gills grayish brown, wrinkled, looking like meat. Stipe well-developed but squat; white with reddish brown scales. Thick partial veil, becoming separated in older specimens but cap margins still very close to stipe (not opening).
Odor woody. KOH+ pink.
Under Pinus monophylla.
Caps 2 cm broad, tan/cream color, gills similar color, short, medium spacing. With persistent white cortina. Stipe white, base tapering.
KOH -
Interesting UV reaction shown. The most beautiful lichen I've ever seen.
Partially buried in soil under Abies concolor, near Pinus jeffreyi and Quercus kelloggii.
Odor floral.
Exterior UV+ orange-yellow. Young flesh UV+ bluish.
Wash. In shade under Salix, emerging from woody debris and alluvial soil.
Cap orange-brown, darker at center, plane, gently umbonate. Gills dull orange. Stipe reddish brown, lighter on upper 1/4.
KOH red. Not UV reactive.
On Cylindropuntia californica. Erumpent clear jelly that changed to brown/orange then black when dried and no longer jelly-like. Left black scars on the cactus. No other fungi present to suggest that it was parasitic on Stereum, Peniophora or else
Along gravel road in mixed hardwood (beech, oak) woods with some white pine. Odor lightly spermatic. Spores smooth, 8-10 (11) x 4.8-5.5 um; cheilocystidia and pleurocystidia with crystals.
Growing from duff and organic matter under Ribes nevadense understory- Calocedrus decurrens, Abies and Alnus rhombifolia nearby
Near East Fork Barton Creek, San Bernardino NF
Subdecurrent gills with pale pink spore print (seen in third photo)
Farinaceous/cucumbery smell
Very bitter/chemically taste
Slightly UV reactive (hard to get photo)
Lip gloss odor. Mature coast live oak woodland. In buried wood under Quercus agrifolia.
On dead branch of Rhamnus ilicifolia.
Ascoma black discoid perithecia with central depression. Mature ascus 78 x 16 µm, thick walled, 8-spored; apex IKI-. Ascus walls thickest in immaturity, 4.9 µm. Ascospores hyaline dictyospores, 21-25 µm.
Note how the eyebrows are differently colored between picture 1 and two - After I played (with Merlin Bird ID) the calls of female sooty grouse, this fellow did a nice strutting dance (photo 4) and his eyebrow tissues became engorged and turned from yellow orange to much more reddish. Be warned, they become extremely excited if you play female calls. When I did so, this bird almost flew into my car window it was so excited.
RLC1770
Slight Farinaceous odor detected. Sub decurrent to decurrent gills, strongly hygrophanous. In scattered duff under conifers.
Spores from nearby mushroom on my desk scattered onto slide, so i'll have to redo the spore micro. The spores are very likely broadly elliptic, and white, as I only saw spores fitting that description.
There were cystidia and odd inflated elongated hyphae protruding out of the gill face,
It was awesome. So awesome.
White rimmed foot, around 3cm long.
First two photos by Phil Evans (5/7/20 & 5/8/20)
Rest by Fred Rhoades (5/12/20)
Stereo view is a Right-Left stereo (cross your eyes)
Micro views first at 400X second at 1000X showing spores (6-7 um, smooth) and peridial net.